Mourning and Melancholia

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Mourning and Melancholia

Art has the unique ability to externalize trauma, transforming invisible emotional wounds into tangible visual forms. This chapter explores how artists make personal and collective grief visible, turning pain into a shared experience and fostering empathy through creative expression.

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Mourning and Melancholia is a series exploring loss as both an emotion and a metaphor. In an age defined by transformation and disappearance, mourning becomes a way of engaging with memory—its persistence, its erosion, and the delicate traces that linger as time fades what we once knew.

Through the work of contemporary artists across mediums, the series delves into how we confront loss—both personal and collective—through memory, myth, and transformation. Each episode opens a passage into the terrain of absence: from spectral images and fragmented archives to rituals of remembrance and haunting. Here, mourning and melancholia extend beyond the literal—they become metaphors for change, dislocation, and the quiet persistence of the past within the present. These artistic practices do not seek consolation; they linger in the uncertainty between grief and renewal. Mourning and Melancholia invites us to dwell with what remains, tracing the fragile contours of memory, identity, and the echoes of what once was, in a world perpetually shadowed by disappearance.

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